438 u Vert*. I. 04nExpo f vion upon the Book of J o B. Chap. 37, bring ormoving of the heart at the appearancesof God, orat the difcoveries of his Power and Glary in his Word and in hisWorks, Firfl, That which is natural. ( Ifa.7. 2. ) when it was told the ' houle ofDavid,faying,Syria is confederate with Ephraim ; his heart (char is,the heart of Alhaz.) was moved,and the heart ofhis-people, as the treesof the Wood are movedwith the wind. And when Felix heatdPaul rcafpingof righteoufnefs,temperance,and thefulgmertto come,he trembled: 1 heJudge trembled at the voyce ofthe prifoner. 'Tis natural for man to fear and tremble at the report of any truth which renders himguilty,or of any trouble which over-maftershis ability to wìthfiand or avoyd it., Secondly, There is a Legal trembling, proceeding from a fpirit of bondage, or the dreadful apprehenfions of the wrath of God againfl fin ( Row.8. r 5. ) This inmany is precedaneous to their true converfion,and, as a needle, makes.way for the fpirit of grace and adoption,by which thread they are united &fafined unto God through faith,&walk in a child-like fearhefore him all their days. Thirdly, There is a penal or judiciary fear and trembling. God in judgement fometimesfills the heart of finful man with fear, as the punifhment of his fin. They who have no fear of God in their hearts tokeep or over-aw them gracioufly from finning and living in a courfe of iin,are delivered up to afpirit of fear, which conti- nually furfueth them with dreadful apprehenfions of the wrath of God,andof force imminent and impendent evils, ready to fall up- on them for their fins ; .d dreadfulfound is in their ears (asEli- phas told job, Chap. a 5.21 .) yea, as he fpeaks there (verf. 24.) trouble and angui fib make himafraid ; theyprevail agauefr him, as a King ready to battei. The Lord threaten'd it as one of the fore Judgments that he would bring upon his People the Jewes, for their difObediience'( Dent. 28. 65.) Iwitigive thee a trembling heart ; yea , he threaten'd (Ifa . 5 2. 17. ) to give them the dregs of the Cup of trembling. Ez,ekrel (Chap. a z. 18. ) was commanded to tremble, as a fign to the 'People of that penal fear and trembling which God would fend upon them. Such was that trembling fpoken of (Ezek. 26. a 6.) Then all the Princes of the Sea fhall come down from their Thrones, and lay away their Robes, andput of their broideredgarments, and fhdli cloath them/elves with trenblings. Doubtlefs they had little mind to fuch change of ray- ment, they had rather have been cloathed with raggs ; but the Lord
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